IWW and radical influences on the San Francisco waterfront
Submitted by Hieronymous on May 3 2017 05:01
For May Day 2017 Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union invoked a contractual "stop-work" privilege and refused to work any Bay Area docks in celebration of International Workers Day for the third consecutive year. This speech, originally delivered at the 75th Anniversary of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike at the Marine Firemen’s Hall in San Francisco, was adapted for the rally preceding the May Day march on May 1, 2017.
Address of August Spies
The address of August Spies at his trial in his and his co-defendants defence, in the aftermath of the Haymarket massacre.
Strike Against War: Helen Keller
Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, January 5, 1916, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum
Jacopo Fo’s speech at his father Dario’s funeral
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Oct 21 2016 13:13
Dario Fo, actor, Nobel prizewinner, communist and political activist died in Milan on October 13th. He was 90 years of age. His son, Jacopo, gave an emotional speech at his father's funeral.
What Marx should have said to Kropotkin - Adam Buick
The following is the transcript of a talk given by Adam Buick to the 1994 'Socialist Party of Great Britain Summer School', which was held that year at Ruskin College in Oxford, England.
Appeal on behalf on an oppressed human variety - Kurt Hiller
Classic speech against gay oppression written by Kurt Hiller for the Second International Congress for Sexual Reform in Copenhagen in 1928, which was translated by the Marxist cell within the Gay Liberation Front and published in 1970.
Talking schools - Colin Ward
A compilation of 10 talks given by Colin Ward on education from a libertarian and anarchist perspective.
Speech at the Madrid Ateneo - Salvador Seguí
A speech delivered by Salvador Seguí in 1919 in Madrid in which the CNT leader denounces Catalonian separatism as an alibi for the repression of the workers movement, denies that socialist parties or anarchist groups are capable of assuming responsibility for production, calls upon the unions to focus on an educational program to prepare the Trade Unions, based on occupational categories, to guarantee the normalization of production and consumption after the revolution (so that “all the material needs of life for all humans will be assured”), and claims that this preparation (“We have to read a lot, and discuss even more”) is an indispensable precondition for communism.
The Historical Place of the SPGB
Transcript of the opening remarks of a talk by Steve Coleman (for the Socialist Party of Great Britain) taking place on 1 June 1980 in London. Full audio recording also available online.
Marxian economics - Edgar Hardcastle
Transcript of the opening remarks of Edgar Hardcastle (for the Socialist Party of Great Britain) taking place in 1986 at Marchmont Street in London. Full video recording also available online.
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